CVE-2026-81626
HIGHCVE-2026-81626 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.6) SQL Injection vulnerability. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to a SQL injection vulnerability in the Load Balancer Groups component. An unauthenticated user can inject SQL statements through the…
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2026-81626.
Description
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to a SQL injection vulnerability in the Load Balancer Groups component. An unauthenticated user can inject SQL statements through the Load Balancer Servlet endpoint, potentially resulting in unauthorized access to data and impact to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system.
Detection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for the affected component, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Remediation status
No patched version of the affected component has shipped for CVE-2026-81626 yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.
Mitigate without a patch
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2026-81626 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2026-81626. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2026-81626 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds CVE-2026-81626 across dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.